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I’ve just confirmed today a slot in the St Donats Acoustic Festival on the 7th of July. I’ll be playing amongst some very talented musicians including a personal favourite, Thomas Leeb
As promised, there’s more good to news to report. I have been chosen by Cardiff MP Jonathon Evans to represent the City’s solo category in the Rock the House competition, the winner of which will play in the Houses of Parliament. To get the word out I shall be playing, along with the chosen entry for the band category, in the Cafe Nero opposite Cardiff Castle at 11.30am this Saturday.
I’m glad to say there’s lots of good news and big gigs to look forward to over the next few months. As I’ve mentioned I’ll be playing in St. David’s Hall as part of the Welsh Proms, and in the meantime I’ll be supporting Jake Morley at The Full Moon, Al Lewis on June 15th in Snails and next week I’ll be providing pre-show entertainment at the Lord Mayor’s Gala Concert at Wales Millennium Centre. Keep your eyes peeled for plenty of other gigs around Cardiff in the meantime, and some exciting news I’ll be sharing in a few days time!
Went for the first recording session for the next album yesterday, still a few more songs to polish up on and some to compose from scratch altogether, but still, watch this space!
I didn’t think a solo instrumentalist would have much of a chance at Cardiff Uni’s Battle of the Bands – Heat 2 against 3 other bands, who all turned out to be great and an provided an excellent night’s music, but thought I might as well give it a go. Anyway, it turned out be a worthwhile decision as I’ll now be playing in the semi finals, on the 25th or March.
In the sidebar are three tracks from the debut release, ‘Why Dewi Quit the Call Centre’. Reviews of which are to the side and in the pictures section, and of course there are plenty of videos of the other songs from the album.
Spanish medley is indeed what it says on the tin, a medley of some of my favourite Spanish tunes to play. When I started learning the guitar I was very typical of pretty much what every boy my age did, started with power chords, playing green day and blink 182 etc, before moving on to blues and then being devoted to learning every note of every Led Zeppelin song. Until one day, I saw El Mariachi, and discovered my new musical obsession.
Kevin’s Room, following on from the self explanatory song naming habit of Spanish Medley ( I swear I have more imagination than my songs titles would imply) was just something I started playing about with in the front room of the album’s producer, Kevin, whilst he was fiddling with the settings on the computer (an important task that goes over my head and takes up about 80% of all recording sessions). Thinking that we’d stumbled upon something worth looking into, we quickly got to recording the improvised tune before I could forget it.
One of my favourites to perform, Zombie Pirates was one of the first songs on the album to be composed and at first I had plans to make it a mixture of a jaunty sea shanty and finerpickin’ cowboylike wild west tune. If I recall it would have been something like Zombie Pirates vs. Werewolf Cowboys (admittedly I’m not sure myself why I added the horror aspect) but the undead sailors won out in the end, although you never know, there might be some lycanthropic gunslinging on the second album.
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Pictures and such. Actually, just pictures
Dear Dewi Griffiths,